Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-13

OF he1 parents C00 ve0ln Oh tn0 EOuItn.
Those present we're: Missss Helen Gaylord.
joe Collan. 81. Whit6sy. Engine Gordon
and Dan Mcdonald.
Mr.. Chas. Bonner, Of Deer Lodge, was q
guest Of Mr.. NJ. J. Council 3 lew days last
week.
Misses Carrie and Linda Williams. who
have been visiting in the city e lew days,
returned to Deer Lodge yesterday.
Mrs. C. F. Lloyd, Mrs. W. b. De Witt,
Mrs. H. A. D'Acheul and Miss ZHoush are
visiting friends in Helena.
Mrs. T. J: Baker is visiting in Helena.
Miss Tate. OF Helena, visited Mrs. DR..
Bishop last week. IS =
DR.. w. r. Rothwell. wife and son and
Miss Lulu DeBery. Of Liberty, Missouri.
are expected in Butte soon. and will be
guests of DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Reed. =
The Misses Cochran, OF Helena, have
been the guests Of Miss Ada Foster tie
past week. a.,I.e
Mr.. VIM. Baker, of Colorado, il visiting
his uncle. Mr.. j. c. Baker, Of this city.
Miss Nina Daft. well known in Butte
| society circles came up from Salt Lake
| City Yesterday and il q guest OF Mrs. Wln!
Read, Anaconda. s
A party Ut young ladies and gentlemen
enjoyed q pleasant drive last Thursday
evening in Lavell Bros. handsome T-cart.
Miss Laura Baker entertained q small
party of friends very pleasantly last
Thursday evening at her home on East
Granite street.
The annual ball given by the 6remen at
Renshaw Hall on Intervening of the Fourth
was attended by over three hundred peo-
| ole and was even more enjoyable than sim
liar affairs have been. The best music the
| city affords was in attendance. Very
manv. handsome toilets were WON q
dancing continued till the early morning
hours.
1t is probable that . large party of our
society people will 60 to Soda Springs
about the 25th.
Miss Gertrude Davidson, of Helena. il in
the city visiting Mrs. Thos. Campbell.
Mr.. Sam Louis is still confined to his
residence on account of illness.
MI. Mark Soloman. a representative OF
Messrs. Lindaur Bros. & Co., of Chicago, is
in the city.
Mr.. Thomas of the Utah & Montana
Machinery Company, and his vile n
daughter arrived from Salt Lake City last
Friday and will reside here permantly.
Mrs. M. 8. Gibbs left the city yesterday
for the Soda Springs to spend her summer
vacation.
MI. J. M. H~annaford. traffic manager, is
expected to arrive from st. Paul to-day.
Mics Baldwin, of Stockton. Calf 'rnia, is
expected here soon and will be the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Citing.
Miss Eta Pinkham will go to Stuart
next Thursday to visit her friend Miss
Mamie Lamb. =
Mr.. P. j. Brophy contemplates a visit to
Idaho Don
Mrs. H. II. Harst and her daughters,
Misses Laura and Frankie, will next month
visit Helena, Boxeman and the National
Park.
ART NOTES.
Among newly shown decorative fabrics
may be mentioned, Indian "Durries,"
cross-striped in crimson, green. orange,
blue, black, brown and white, to be used as
rugs or portieres or window curtains.
Indian Durries are two and an eighth
yards long and about forty-two inches
wide and fringed at each end, their brilliant
c~oloring serving to light a dark spot when
used as q rug, or q dark hall when serving
as portieres.
Another Oriental fabric is the Assyrian
scarf, a thin. gauzy silk, striped in two
colors or three, the two-cOlored Scarf being
two and a quarter yards in length and the
%tri.colored three and q hall.
An exquisite drapery for an Ivory white
and gold room is of heavy Chinese crepe Of
a creamy white tone, embroidered in an
all-over design in gold thread COUGHING; a
drapery of this kind is arranged to form
an ove1apantel draping, falling in irregular
folds to the mantel shelf and covering it,
then falling down in graceful folds to serve
at once as valance and scarf.
Among embroidered articles, cushions of
all sorts seem to be the favorites, pillows
for sofas. head rests, foot rests, yacht
cushions. A pretty cushion cover is com.
posed of white linen duck; on this medium
is adesign arranged ~diagonally, that is. in a
space divided ~diagonally, is an alI-over
wave pattern embroidered in u rich full
blue.
For photographs, screens for the table
all sorts of gay and delightful fabrics are
used as coverings, such az painted plushes
and v~elvets, old stuffs in brocade AND silk,
toile c%retonnes, armures, satins, pongee
ond other easterd silks, gay chintzes and
moleskin v~elvets. taffetas, Gobelin tapestry
and velvet. on the last fabric Spanish en-
broidery applique is a favorite decoration.